#and placed the bird there

[piratedllama-art]

Quarters only, please [x <- prints here]

(done in procreate)

#piratedllama art #horror art #liminal #digital art #realism #procreate #digital painting #animals in weird places #shoebill stork #laundromat #hi this took 49.5 hours #32 hours spent on rendering the washing machines #and you may ask 'why did you do that?' #and to that i would reply #idk #just for kicks and giggles #liminal art #scary bird #bird art #horror #liminal horror #surrealism #llerbles

[materterrae]

#nature photopragpy #nature #photograpy #scenary #beautiful place #beautiful landscape #travel #sunlight #beautiful birds

[somethingcorenotsure]

I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it

they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons

and musical instruments

And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses

And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them

#yes I KNOW i posted about this the other day but *crying* i just love plant domestication and the history of agriculture #and humanity's positive affect on the ecosystems we live in #mine #image IDs in alt text #hmm. I'm gonna tag this #permaculture #just to pspsps @ that community to look at how cool gourds are please everyone grow birdhouse gourds and give cavity nesters places to live #i don't think mine will become fully ripe before i get my first frost :( next year i need to start gourds indoors #i didn't want to grow them before because i didn't have much garden space but now i do and i need to grow all of them #i might be. a little obsessed with gourds. but also i saw a pair of purple martins flying by the road last year #and i had never seen one before then! and i need to see more of them #i have a few hundred barn swallows but i need more birds flying around my house. more!! #and also i have a ton of invasive cavity nesting species around here. house sparrows and starlings. #gotta make up for those things competing with native birds for nest dites #*sites #the invasive birds very often win :/ #that's why they're invasive #i really do need to start trapping them....

[gemsofgreece]

Monemvasiá at Peloponnese, Greece. Valantis M. Photography

#greece #europe #travel #drone photography #bird´s eye view #townscape #town #places #seascape #sea #architecture #monemvasia #peloponnisos #laconia #peloponnese #mainland

[kedreeva]

Okay, I haven't wanted to talk much about the peafowl lately, been just kinda dealing with Stan's passing, but! I have news I don't want to keep quiet, so here we go with a little announcement.

I've been helping a friend of mine with a bunch of peafowl genetics work lately, as he's trying to prove out a really neat phenotype of speckled and white peafowl that showed up in his breeding stock, and he just spent tens of thousands of dollars importing two new morphs from Europe: European violet (aka, my dream morph) and Ultramarine (pretty and only otherwise being produced by TWO breeders in the WORLD). When Bill heard about Stan, he asked if I was going to go to a large farm auction that's a few hours from my house. I don't, normally, since it's a few hours from my house and the auctions usually make me kinda sad when it comes to peafowl (they stress out SO MUCH) even though it's cool to see how much they're going for at a wider audience auction.

Then he told me he would be going, and that if I wanted to come down the day before the auction, he'd bring me another male, to replace Stan. I had already made plans to hang onto Bismuth, at least for a few years, and to pick up babies from Indie x Arcana/Eclipse this november, including a male, so I didn't really need another male, and don't have the cash for one anyway. He said no, he meant one of the split EUV males from last year's first-USA breeding. For free. As a thank you for helping him.

To put this into perspective, importing the birds is a ~$10k affair, per bird. I had fully resigned myself to never even SEEING one of these birds in person, much less ever owning one. Even if someone else got them imported, they would remain thousands of dollars for the first few years, and quickly become mixed with other stuff, potentially even be lost by people breeding to purple. He went in on a group import with another breeder and they have both just started selling the full-color birds for over $2k apiece (alongside Ultramarine, which before their import was bred by TWO people in the WORLD, and babies from that are going for almost $7k each, but EUV is more widely spread). Splits (like the one I will be getting) are being let go for $750. This is also the color I have desperately wanted since I first saw them 8-10 years ago (though I believe they've been around slightly longer), but that I had resigned myself to never actually having.

To put it mildly, I'm probably going to burst into tears when I see Bill and this bird. It's going to be super embarrassing. And then I'm going to have to build more pens. And then I'm going to have to get as plain-blue, pure-indian blue hens as I can find, and become one of the most serious curators of plain pure EUV in the US, because I know the other two who have them currently will be outcrossing to other patterns/colors immediately and the people buying them will likely be doing the same, and everyone will be clamoring to make them into high Spaldings ASAP, or won't know not to cross them to purples and wreck the color.

Here's the sire cock, the one imported:

You will notice that this bird is purple in full sun, from the sunny side. That's the main difference between European violet and US purple- a US purple looks blue until you get the right angle on the sun vs the bird vs the camera, and you have to get the bird between you and the sun, so the purple is often in the shadow side- visible to the eye but not the camera. EUV is just purple. Even from the sunny side!!

And the Ultramarine, in case you were wondering about their color:

(pics reposted w/ permission from Bill)

The breeder is Spring Creek Peafowl, and in case anyone is secretly a peafowl breeder or knows other peafowl breeders with too much money that want in on a new color morph, he DOES have UM pairs and EUV hens (and more split males) for sale currently, for less than the only other person in the US that has them. They're still pricey, but cheaper. I WISH I had the extra to have my friend add on an EUV hen, but alas, I will have to wait to make my own in a few years. Even just the opportunity to do so is something I never expected to have!

#peafowl #my pets #longfeather lane #cool cool cool i'm crying about it again #but listen I am OVERCOME with happiness okay #Can't wait to cry in the middle of a VERY public place over a bird #can i gofundme a bird?? is that allowed in their tos

[havendance]

I think we should torture Dick by coming up with an AU where Tim's the one to get dealt the faked death/undercover in spyral thing instead. Like, congratulations man! You're the last one standing. (Well, except for Jason I suppose but Jason's probably causing problems on purpose.) You've won an even bigger than usual guilt complex. No, you can't opt out.

#this obviously takes place in a universe where they are still brothers who care about each other #bonus points if Tim 'dies' in a way that also allows Dick to conveniently blame himself for failing to save him #oh and this would also allow tim and helena to team up for spy shenanigans which is always a win in my book #dc #batman #dick grayson #tim drake #bats + birds + affiliated #last of the flying graysons #tim tag #carthago delenda est

[somnimagus]

My page for @destinytriofanzine! I drew something about kids always dreaming of far off places

[id in alt!]

#kingdom hearts #kh #ahh this one was so hard to draw; i never know how to combine a bunch of scenes in one picture without it looking cheesy #just threw a bunch of waves and leaves and birds on top and called it a day haha. it might be a bit too busy though #the white line going up the center is supposed to be a trail left behind by the gummi ship! it connects to the ship in the bg at the top #it's kinda meant to evoke little kids dreaming of other places-> getting older and earnestly making the raft to try to reach the dream #->the gummi ship as a premonition of how they'd actually reach the dream in the future. i guess? idk how to explain #and i really wanted to have kairi's expressions be really similar but changing subtly from wonder to worry when she's older #the boys are just max enthusiasm the whole time #but yeah. something something Symbolism and hopefully it's at least kinda pretty if it doesn't make sense #i'm just super proud to have been part of this project! everyone's work is just amazing #the destiny kids give me this soft feeling of kinda lonely nostalgia. it's nice to have a book full of that #very wistful looking through it #fan art #my art #project stuff

[arcade-emporia]

Had a dream that the Bachelor route of pathologic 2 came out and Daniil was SO small and SO angry that it was a gameplay feature… like his walking speed was abysmal but he’d walk faster if he got angry so ppl were finding ways to piss off npcs in conversation and timing it so that they’d just stop every now and then on their trek across town to argue with a drunkard and keep powerwalking

#there were maps on the subreddit of who had conversations available at different times in different places #and people were planning routes based off of this to maximize speed #insane #pathologic #bird sings

[grumpyghostdoodles]

Poor Peepaw Starlo. They grow up so quickly.

#in Starlo's defense‚ Asriel has daily experience with carrying multiple dead-weight worth of adults #because his two sibilings + his cousin will hitch a ride on him to get places constantly #especially Chara #Mf goes completely limp when Asriel carrying them #like a gigantic ferret #sometimes a family can be a cowboy‚ a bird‚ and the cowboy's wife #aint that beautiful *wipes tear away* #first time ever drawing my adult Clover design and the mf is conked out lmao #theyre rocking that Lara Croft-esque braid #myart #undertale #undertale yellow #ut #uty #starlo uty #north star uty #starlo #ceroba uty #ceroba #martlet uty #martlet #asriel dreemurr #oh and thats chara whos unconscious on Asriel

[monstermonger]

A sleepy dragon among his many birb friends.

#art #dragons #sleeby... #dragon art #birds #bird art #the safest place they could ever make a nest #fantasy art #fantasy creatures #tree dragon #weeping willow

[green-algae]

12/21/23, Frosty sunrise by the Potomac River in Northern Virginia

#Nature #Nature Log #Places #Virginia #Northern Virginia #Forest #Photography #Potomac #Potomac River #River #Stream #Water #photographers on tumblr #original photography #winter #bird #heron

[convoloutedinjoke]

If Harry’s tragedy is that he can’t go on like this but he has to, Kim’s tragedy is that he doesn’t have to go on like this but he will.

#disco elysium #Anyone about to write an essay on this wrt. Kim’s capacity for change: yes. That’s the problem. #Harry is stuck in the RCM because a lifetime of disability and a lack of outside support have rendered him unable to adapt #Kim is stuck in the RCM because hes too fucking adaptable. He copes too well with his adverse circumstances to recognise when he should dip #The cage is open the window is thrown wide he’s just built a nest in there and the cats don’t swat at it enough to make him want to leave #Anyway was thinking about this after someone posted about the no recruiting Kim ending. Sad for them! They need each other a little! #(Harry’s cage is also open but it’s suspended from a 60ft tree and he is a legless penguin) #(“You can just leave” onlookers call up to him “come down here. go hang out in the shack with the other flightless birds. It’ll be fine”) #(Not really accounting for how he’s supposed to get down there in the first place)

[materterrae]

#beautiful place #beautiful landscape #travel #sunlight #scenary #photograpy #nature #nature photopragpy #beautiful birds

[likopinina]

SIGNALIS character height chart

notes: couldn't find a blueprint image for storch, so I mixed falke's with star's basing on a poster of storch. all heights are copied from the wiki and i trusted them, fingers crossed there's no mistakes

#signalis #height chart #mynah signalis #falke signalis #storch signalis #star signalis #ara signalis #elster signalis #adler signalis #eule signalis #kolibri signalis #all the birds in one place #adler is an honorary robot girl

[gemsofgreece]

Greece, Syros Island by sebastien.nagy on Instagram.

#greece #europe #travel #town #townscape #architecture #bird's eye view #places #sea #syros #hermoupolis #cycladic islands #greek islands #cyclades

[lionfloss]

by Brendon Burton

#photography #nature #snow #winter #fields #dead plants #dark #gloomy #overcast #misty #foggy #fog #birds #roads #power lines #cabin #abandoned #abandoned places #farm #ranch #eerie #ominous #curators on tumblr #1k